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Slovo (Uppsala), 2010, No. 51Journal of Slavic Languages and Literaturesaddition, the project organisation includes a reference group of nine specialists: UllaBirgegård (Uppsala University, em.), Per-Arne Bodin (Stockholm University), RalphCleminson (University of Portsmouth), Elisabeth Löfstrand (Stockholm University),Ingrid Maier (Uppsala University), Anisava Miltenova (Bulgarian Academy ofSciences), Lars Steensland (Lund University, em.), Mirja Varpio (Lund University,em.), and Hans Åkerström (Gothenburg University Library, em.).The DSS project continues research conducted in Swedish repositories by severalgenerations of slavists, and without the accomplishments of our predecessors, Swedishand foreign colleagues, the work within the project would simply not be possible.During the first year of the project period almost fifty Swedish repositories havebeen investigated. Of these, approximately thirty (see Appendix, below) containCyrillic and Glagolitic materials of relevance to the project. In addition to alreadyknown manuscripts and printed books, the material also includes several previouslyunknown books and fragments. A preliminary inventory of the presently knownmanuscripts and printed books (Granberg et al. 2010) was published as the first reportin the series Cyrillica Suecana (see https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/23786).Another part of the work during the first year of the project has focused on thestructure of the descriptions of the materials. Two different models have beenestablished: one for the description of manuscripts and another for the description ofearly printed books, and several preliminary descriptions of different types of books(manuscripts, Slavonic printed books, books printed in “civil print”) have beencompleted. These descriptions will be presented and discussed at a workshop inStockholm in January 2011, organized in cooperation with the research department ofthe National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket).In early 2010 a database (SVEKYR) was created in order to facilitate cooperationwithin the project. Eventually, the database will contain records of all manuscripts andcopies of printed books that will be described within the project. The description willinclude all records of early Cyrillic manuscripts and early printed books in Swedenlisted in existing catalogues (Roubetz s.a., Glubokovskij 1918, 1919, Kjellberg 1951[with the handwritten additions in the copy located at Uppsala University Library],Gawryś & Jansson 1956, Gawryś 1960, 1961, Davidsson 1975, Steensland 2005, etc.),relevant records in the electronic Swedish Union Catalogue of printed books(LIBRIS), etc., as well as records of previously unknown manuscripts and printedbooks. At present (December 2010) the SVEKYR database comprises approximately athousand records (ca. 200 manuscripts and ca. 800 copies of printed books). Thedatabase is designed primarily as a working tool for the project, and in addition tofields describing the actual materials (author, title, time of origin, place of origin, etc.),all records also include fields pertaining to the work by the project participants(references to related archival materials and notes, dates of inspection de visu, etc.).Some of the descriptive fields are designed and numbered with reference to the108